Putkilahti is surrounded by high mountains and narrow bays of lake Päijänne. We know that
there have been people staying in Putkilahti already during the Stone Age, because several
findings dating from that era have been made here. Nowadays the most people are living by
the lake, because the fields have been easy to cultivate there and the water in Päijänne
is still clean.
Finnish Department of the Environment has chosen Putkilahti as one of the valuable
landscapes in Finland.

PEOPLE AND EVENTS

There are about 250 people living in Putkilahti. During the summer they are three times
more, when people come to their summer cottages during their holidays.
We village people have developed our environment in many different ways. We want to
conserve our highly regarded landscape for the coming generations. At the moment we are
renovating our hundred-year-old school building to a meeting place for all the villagers.
We also publish a newspaper which is issued once a month.